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Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
January 21, 2013
theGRIO REPORT – President Barack Obama’s second inaugural is in full swing in Washington, and so is the spirit of entrepreneurship…
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
January 19, 2013
theGRIO REPORT – Some 5,000 military kids, their parents, and local Washington D.C. school children packed into the Washington Convention Center Saturday night for the kids’ inaugural ball…
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
January 17, 2013
OPINION – Of all the locations to hold a retreat in all of the world, they had to choose this one…
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
January 16, 2013
theGRIO REPORT – The bureau has not had a permanent director since Congress required its director to face Senate confirmation in 2006…
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
January 10, 2013
theGRIO REPORT – Allen West may be out of congress, but the tea party firebrand Allen West has carved out a place in history … or at least on eBay…
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
January 7, 2013
theGRIO EXCLUSIVE – Less than two months after 21-year-old Ernest Hoskins was shot to death by his boss during a lunch meeting at the boss’ home, an eyewitness has come forward, in an exclusive interview with theGrio, to describe what she saw…
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
January 6, 2013
NEWS – Despite the shock over the massacre of children and teachers in Newtown, Connecticut, not much has changed in the U.S., when it comes to gun violence, Melissa Harris-Perry illustrated on her show Sunday…
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
January 3, 2013
theGRIO REPORT – The House of Representatives cast its votes for speaker on Thursday, and while John Boehner won his gavel back – he wasn’t the only candidate to get votes…
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
December 31, 2012
theGRIO REPORT – After years of claims that they were wrongly convicted, nine African-American men and one white women wrongly imprisoned for an arson fire in North Carolina that stemmed from racial unrest over integrated schools have been pardoned…
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
December 14, 2012
OPINION – It was a bad day for the Republican Party, which already has, to put it mildly, an image problem with minorities and women…
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
December 3, 2012
theGRIO REPORT – The defense in the second degree murder case of George Zimmerman has released a color photo showing Zimmerman’s face on the night he shot and killed Trayvon Martin…
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
December 2, 2012
theGRIO REPORT – A Halloween picture could come back to haunt NBA players Tin Duncan and Tony Parker…
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
December 2, 2012
theGRIO REPORT – If there were problems between Kansas City Chiefs player Jovan Belcher and his girlfriend, Kassandra Michelle Perkins, they were not obvious on Facebook, where they were the picture of a happy family. Clearly, the reality was different…
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
December 2, 2012
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – Chiefs chairman Clark Hunt offered his condolences Sunday to the families affected by the murder-suicide involving one of his players, calling it ‘an incredibly difficult 24 hours for our family’…
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
November 29, 2012
theGRIO REPORT – Mitt Romney met with President Barack Obama in the Oval Office today, the first time the two have spoken in person since the presidential election…
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
November 28, 2012
OPINION – Ethics scandals, personal failings and a political rise cut short threaten to cloud the Jackson family legacy…
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
November 28, 2012
OPINION – In today’s congressional GOP, this is what diversity looks like…
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
November 26, 2012
WARD, ARK – An arrest has been made in the case of an Arkansas man shot to death by his boss near Little Rock, Arkansas…
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
November 23, 2012
theGRIO REPORT – Police responded to the home of Chris Reynolds on Friday, November 9th, after Reynolds allegedly called police to report he’d shot 21-year-old Ernest Hoskins Jr…
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
November 20, 2012
POST SCRIPT’D – This week’s reading list includes a few cookbooks to help spice up your Thanksgiving menu…